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Council on Scientific Affairs

JAMA. 1983;250(14):1873-1879.

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NUMEROUS reports during the past 25 years, including those of the American Medical Association's former Council on Foods and Nutrition,^1-4 have discussed the relationship between diet and coronary heart disease (CHD). In 1979, a general statement, "AMA Concepts of Nutrition and Health," was adopted by the Council on Scientific Affairs⁵ and the House of Delegates. That statement emphasized that the maintenance of desirable body weight through the combination of dietary control and exercise was a basic step in modifying certain disease patterns. It was also recommended that persons at increased risk of coronary heart disease on the basis of their plasma lipid profiles "be given individualized dietary advice based on the type of hyperlipidemia diagnosed and that physicians encourage their patients to achieve or maintain desirable weight."⁵

Risk factors for CHD were reviewed by an American Heart Association (AHA) report through its Steering Committee for Medical and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Council on Scientific Affairs, Division of Scientific Analysis and Technology, American Medical Association, Chicago.

Footnotes
Report A of the Council on Scientific Affairs, adopted by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association at the 1982 interim meeting.

This report is not intended to serve as a standard of medical care; standards of medical care that are determined locally and are constantly subject to change are established on the basis of all the several factors of the individual case.

Reprint requests to Division of Scientific Analysis and Technology, Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association, 535 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610 (Richard J. Jones, MD).

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